EU warns carcinogen in foods, like kibble, cause cancer
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9 Comments
Nod
Cancer is a dread disease. And the water we drink, alongside the food made with it has lots of it. Fluoride is a genotoxic, mutagenic, EPA designated class 4 neurotoxin.
Fluoride is a poison that kills cells by affecting enzymes. This is how it controls tooth caries when you brush with it.
Unfortunately for our dogs, we feed them many times more than the amount needed to cause disease, inadvertently, when we buy the wrong foods. Bone meal and meat by products from animals fed fluoridated water are full of fluoride, because the bones accumulate fluoride.
As far as our dogs go, and without a doubt, fluoride is THE cancer issue. Especially bone cancer, as that which kills so many dogs. It is every where, and we load them up because someone tells us it is ok.
Please read the link I will provide, and note the additional links at the bottom of the page. No opinions, just science. And this position is agreed upon by the WORKERS at the EPA..
Fluoride kills.
wwDOTewgDOTorg/research/dog-food-comparison-shows-high-fluoride-levels/health-effects-fluoride
Please follow the two links at the bottom as well.
” Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride LevelsFluoride ”
and “Osteosarcoma ›”
Nod
Fluoride is the worst of the cancer causing ingredients in your dog food, and in your water. Do NOT feed your dog fluoride. It is in the water, and it is in the bone meal and meat by products in cheap food.Disagree wit the facts? Here is the science. And the UNBIASED point on experts.
https://www.ewg.org/research/dog-food-comparison-shows-high-fluoride-levels/health-effects-fluoride
Ryder
Very informative post. It worries me as this health risk is not only for human food but for our pets as well. It is ideal to resort to homemade dog food instead of those commercially available ones. This way it avoids the risk of potential harmful effects and they would be getting the required nutrients in every serving.
Peter
Your suggestion, that current FDA regulations regarding acrylamide in pet foods should be reconsidered, is urgently appropriate. Chronic, or long-term exposure to even low levels of these types of carcinogens—which happens when even well-meaning and supposedly educated pet guardians feed a single type of food across their pet’s lifetime—can lead to a myriad of extended health problems.
As you discuss, typical pet food formulations are highly-processed cereal and potato-based “least cost mix” carbohydrate recipes. The need to maintain extraordinarily aggressive profit metrics is the framework for LCM protocols that manufacturers are bound by. I am grateful that you work to educate on the issue that, to overcome bacterial contamination that is inevitable when by-products and especially grains are part of these recipes, pet food and animal feed manufacturers consistently high heat process multiple times, and are permitted to utilize “rework.” These are the ideal conditions to create even higher levels of acrylamide.
Long-term studies evaluating the possible consequences of feeding these common pet foods to an animal over many years of its life have never been performed. Never. Yet the industry—and its ally AAFCO—maintain that these products are safe and even “healthy.” Despite that logic should tell us otherwise, this scandal continues. FDA joins in, with not only their failure, but their refusal to “administer” and enforce federal regulations that relate to pet foods.
june lay
Another alternative is a formulated balanced home cooked human food diet, which is what I do. There is an association of verterinary nutritionists as well.